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CHP Chairman Özgür Özelcalled on the government to celebrate May 1 Labor Day in Taksim Square. “May 1st is the rightful labor day that should be celebrated in Taksim,” said Özel, and added: “My call from here is to open Taksim to May 1st, with self-confidence, believing in the workers! I am the guarantor, I will be there, I am the guarantor that one person, together with the workers, will be celebrated without bleeding. We put our hands on it.” We extend our hand, it is the hand of the workers, of peace and self-confidence. The victory of Taksim on May 1 will serve the new climate of this country, do not leave the hands of the workers in the air!” he said.
Upon DISK’s application, the Constitutional Court (AYM) ruled that preventing the celebration in Taksim was “preventing the right to organize meetings and demonstrations guaranteed in Article 34 of the Constitution”. Recalling the decision in question, Özel said the government said, “If sovereignty starts to be protected by police and panzers, it means sovereignty is lost!” If you ban, obstruct, tear gas, then maybe you will postpone the opening of that square to workers and laborers until another May 1st. But on that May 1st, you will no longer be you, because you are finished, exhausted,” he warned.
Özel, for the hearing of the train disaster case that will be held in Çorlu tomorrow, will be held on 29 February.Don’t think that we will be weak on April 5, I will be here stronger on March 31. “Don’t be afraid when you look at the 100 people today, I will be here with a much larger crowd on April 25.” He called by reminding his words; “Tomorrow, I will meet at Santral Pak in Çorlu and use the right to walk peacefully behind the mothers to accompany their screams and walk with them on the determined route towards the courtroom. Tomorrow, do not leave the mothers of Çorlu alone, those who love me should follow me.”
Özel, 3rd deputy of Istanbul Aslı Sibel YanıkömeroğluHe pinned a badge on him saying, “We were already missing a member of parliament in the 3rd District of Istanbul, and he will bear a lot of responsibility for our constructive opposition in the parliament in the work to be done against the earthquake. I welcome him to our group.”
On the other hand, Özel started the new member campaign, which they postponed due to the elections, and called out to young people, “Come, sign up, do politics, we need you very much.” Upon Özel’s call, the twin brothers who were in the hall requested to become members. Thereupon, Özel took the young people to the podium and made them sign the membership form. While he gave one of the young people his Özgür Özel badge, he gave the other young man his youth branch president badge.
Highlights from Özel’s statements are as follows:
“Ms. Ayşe responded to our call and came to her father’s house. Today, we did not start the local elections because we were campaigning not only for the CHP but also for the Turkish alliance. Now, all the young people, all the women, regardless of their political views, in Turkey, hope is changing, now we all come together to our father’s house.” Why is your father’s house because it is the party founded by Gazi Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, because you can come back when you are in trouble, you know that the tea is brewed, the soup is boiling, the chimney is smoking, I am the one who smokes that leg, especially to the provincial presidents in 81 provinces, to the district presidents, from women’s branches to district presidents to youth branches. We are starting a membership campaign, together we are opening the doors of our father’s house. I am calling out to young people who are not members of CHP but are interested, come and sign up and do politics, we need you very much.
Loyalty to Levent Bayraktar
“Levent Bayraktar, we had very emotional moments in the closed group while I was talking about him. He was one of the most honest and hard-working people I have ever met in my life. He contributed a lot to our party. He contributed a lot to our previous chairman, and Mr. Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu also contributed a lot to him. This wonderful person is very fond of parliamentary law. This Özgür Özel, who knows well and thinks about every point we get stuck in while working in the parliament, is actually the invisible hero of that job, Mr. Levent. However, unfortunately, he did not live to see those days. My consolation is that a person who loved this party so much was being treated for cancer and was intubated on March 31. He wanted to stay awake on March 31. Of course, I went to visit him three days after the election. We never left him alone before the election. I promised I would come. He was in the intensive care unit and I visited him while he was awake while he was intubated. On the night of March 31, his wife told him, he showed the television, the public did so, the TV was on, I attribute the success of the March 31 election to the deputies and our group. God rest the soul.
CLICK – Kılıçdaroğlu and Özel shouldered the funeral of CHP TBMM Group Manager Levent Bayraktar together
Taksim call to the government for May 1: Don’t leave our hands in the air!
We will work and fight until the end, until we bring this justice to this country, until everyone is satisfied with the justice in the court, until social justice makes everyone living in this country feel like equal citizens, until we achieve economic justice in this country without leaving anyone’s rights behind, and end first hunger and then poverty. TC is a constitutional state. Of course, in addition to the articles we support, there may be articles that we criticize and want to be changed, but if there is to be a state in this country, that is, if people’s memories and property are to be safe, everyone in this country, from the highest president to the simplest citizen, will be bound by this constitution. If you implement the parts of the constitution that suit you in a country, take power from there, and violate the parts that do not suit you, this right belongs to everyone, not just one person. There, the state and the constitution disappear, then there will be chaos and then there will be a problem of survival. That’s why everyone in this country, from the simplest citizen to the president, must comply with this constitution to the letter. Complying with the Constitution means complying with the binding nature of the ECHR decisions and the Constitutional Court decisions. May 1st is coming in the coming days, May 1st is the rightful Labor Day that should be celebrated in Taksim. On May 1st, workers want to go to Taksim and mourn the bloody May 1sts and experience the struggle for better days in the future. Those who once boasted about Taksim reopening on May 1 are now banning it, not allowing it, and giving illegal orders to the police. DİSK went to the Constitutional Court on this issue and won the court. While we wanted Taksim to be open on May 1, still keeping Taksim closed on May 1 is nothing but a complex and a waste of anxiety. If you see Taksim Square as the flag of your sovereignty and think that people going there means opposing you, then you are not sovereign. If you ban, obstruct, tear gas, then maybe you will postpone the opening of that square to workers and laborers until another May 1st. But on that May 1st, you won’t be you anymore, because you’re done. I’m calling out to decision makers, are you in? I am the guarantor, I will be there, I am the guarantor for the celebration of one person with the workers without bleeding. Open Taksim to May 1st. Explain that you received the message of March 31st. We extend our hand, our hand is the hand of workers, peace and self-confidence. Winning Taksim on May 1 will serve the new climate of this country. Don’t leave the workers’ hands hanging!
CLICK – Constitutional Court said “Taksim is the common memory of the workers, it should be passed down through generations”. The Ministry and the Governorship did not allow it: Whichever rally square they want is at their disposal…
Call for Çetin Doğan and Makbule Özer
“On the contrary, if this strengthens the terrorist organization, practices like yours will strengthen it. Throwing an 83-year-old woman who does not speak Turkish in prison for someone she unknowingly examined will strengthen the terrorist organization. To weaken it, you need democracy, you need to have self-confidence. The authority of justice cannot be ensured by dealing with 83-year-old women and patients. Don’t do it, give up on these.
CLICK – Retired General Çetin Doğan was discharged and sent to prison: “The process has been suspended, the condition of all of them is getting worse”
“I vow to win Hatay with a 60 percent difference in the next election.”
“We will not leave Hatay alone even if it wins, I swear and promise how we will follow the municipality and the government, how we will make a constructive and harsh opposition, and the next election in Hatay, not by such a small margin, but by 60 percent.
CLICK – YSK rejected CHP’s objection to Hatay, İYİ Party’s objection to Ordu, AKP’s objection to Ardahan
Antalya cable car disaster: The evidence situation has changed, a video has emerged
(Antalya cable car disaster) We advocate that criminals be prosecuted, investigated, and punished if they are guilty, even if they are public officials. Our president is responsible for the accident of the cable car, which has been inspected 3 times after him! It’s not possible, the arrest is political, but now our objections were rejected, the evidence status has changed, a new video has emerged. In the video, the officer sees the malfunction, the system shuts down automatically, he talks on the phone for a while, he looks at it, and although he should not have turned the system on, the expert report says that if there is something to the contrary in that regard, I don’t want to get into his rights, he starts it manually and an accident occurs. He stops it immediately and runs away. Unfortunately, in the file, the system was automatically turned off, that is, it was checked, the controls said there was no problem, and if there is no accident when an error occurs, it means the system worked. The statement of the person who started it manually, that person said, ‘The elections were approaching, before the elections, they said the cable car should work immediately, they had the maintenance done in 15 days, which was supposed to be 3 months old. ‘ He is Mesut Kocagöz, but he is not the general manager, he is the Kepez Mayor candidate. It turns out that the system stopped and the owner of this statement started it. Now there will definitely be a new objection. Now we call it conscience, I say some decency, I say bring Mesut Kocagöz to his freedom and Kepez.
CLICK – Here are the five minutes before the cable car disaster: Passengers warned, they stopped it 50 seconds before the accident, but…
Call for the Çorlu disaster case: Do not leave Çorlu mothers alone, those who love me should come after me
“Tomorrow, April 25th, I was in Çorlu as CHP on February 29th, just like every time, we were with the mothers and children seeking their rights. We will go to be with the mothers who are hurting.
(Ozel, upon being interrupted, said the following: We will not applaud any of you again, do not voice personal agendas while the country’s agenda is being discussed here, take a note of whatever he says, call me to my room and I will discuss it. From now on, please do not cripple such agendas by making remarks about anyone’s speeches, even if they are with the best of intentions.)
I was there on February 29, some people did not dare to announce that decision before the election, they postponed the case until today. Tomorrow is April 25, Ogun, I said in my statement there: ‘Do not think that we will be weak on April 25, I will be stronger on March 31 and be here on April 25. I looked at the 100 people today and said, ‘Don’t be afraid, I will be here with a much larger crowd on April 25.’ Tomorrow, I will meet at Santral Pak in Çorlu and use the right to peacefully march behind the mothers to accompany their screams and walk with them on the determined route towards the courtroom. “Don’t leave Çorlu mothers alone tomorrow, those who love me should follow me.”
